I am really hating anatomy. If I could actually understand what was going on, it would be ok, but sometimes it feels like a gigantic waste of time. Today, we wasted 20min trying to identify one muscle. None of the TAs could figure it out, so at first we had one TA, then two, then the lab tech and one of our anatomy profs as well. They had to look it up in a textbook. If they don't know the medial pelvic limb muscles on a cow, how do they expect us to know it? Why should we know it? It's like they don't prepare for the labs at all, then go in blind and try to figure it out while we're figuring it out.
"Could this be the sartorius? It has two heads, right?"
"In the dog. In the horse there's only one."
"Well, what about the cow?"
"... I'm not sure."
An awful lot of questions end with "I'm not sure" or "I don't know" which is fine if it's some weird, obscure question, but this is just muscle identification. Then there was the whole debacle last week, where they told us one thing ("this is the long digital extensor"), then 3/4 through the lab they say, "Oh, that's wrong! That's not the long digital extensor; that's the peroneus tertius!" I feel like I would get a lot more out of the anatomy lab if our instructors were actually prepared. There have been way too many instances of them contradicting each other, or even contradicting themselves 5 minutes later.
Anatomy rant aside, I think my other courses are ok. We have a histology midterm on Monday, and while some of the TAs aren't very good, the prof, the microscope tech, and one of the TAs are all really knowledgeable and amazing. Our midterm covers basic tissue types and the endocrine system, and they've put in a lot of review to make sure we can identify things on slides. My only complaint is that I still can't see through a microscope properly, with both eyes instead of just one. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to at this point, though.
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